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Penny Tray wrote:I came across a google interpretation that "HUGHIE" is "A 20TH ENTURY AUSTRALIAN EUPHEMISM FOR GOD" as in "HUGHIE'S SENDING IT DOWN".
Hughie's not sending it down at the moment here. We could do with even a wee drizzle, but preferably when this Hughie is in noddy land.
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Then there's that Native American stuff, Apache Rain.
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Hail Joe!
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by joeh »
Ha ha, well topped Hughie.
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by bobnetau »
Penny Tray wrote:A "SMIR" of rain.
I use that one PT
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by down south »
For the very lightest of rain: a Scotch mist.
At the other end of the scale: coming down in torrents.
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by Penny Tray »
Raman Bhardwaj, STV's sports reporter, mentioned last night that it was "TIPPING" it down at Celtic Park.
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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by Penny Tray »
A new one (certainly for me) from the football commentary last night - "It's DINGING it down at Ibrox."
[DINGING - striking with force.]
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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by John Donnelly »
Here in NL, we have an equivalent to the stair-rods.
They say its raining rain-pipes.
They find our cats and dogs very funny.
JD.
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by Penny Tray »
How did we miss DELUGE?
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by bonzo »
Penny Tray wrote: ↑Wed Feb 03, 2021 4:52 pm
How did we miss DELUGE?
Stood in a doorway maybe?
Those wimin were in the nip.
